anniversary - US / ng
| February 06, 2013 11:51AM |
Hi,
I just realized that this is the 120th anniversary of the US signing the Treaty of Metre (I think I've got that right) - 1893.
This said that all weights and measures in the US would be officially metric. The English weights and measures were redefined in metric terms.
American industry never fully converted to metric. Americans are stubborn and independent.
Since I graduated college in 1980, I've mostly seen English measurements but a few places seem to use a mixture of metric and English.
In the 1970s when HOn3 track first came to be, it came in meter and 1/2 meter lengths. So I built a huge HOn3 empire using English for the benchwork and metric for track design. 4cm in 1 meter is a 4% grade.
So, I guess that we should talk about 60cm and 0.914 meter gauges. SG would be 1.435 meter gauge.
K36 drivers are 1.12 meters in diameter
Trivial trivia.
Doug vV
I just realized that this is the 120th anniversary of the US signing the Treaty of Metre (I think I've got that right) - 1893.
This said that all weights and measures in the US would be officially metric. The English weights and measures were redefined in metric terms.
American industry never fully converted to metric. Americans are stubborn and independent.
Since I graduated college in 1980, I've mostly seen English measurements but a few places seem to use a mixture of metric and English.
In the 1970s when HOn3 track first came to be, it came in meter and 1/2 meter lengths. So I built a huge HOn3 empire using English for the benchwork and metric for track design. 4cm in 1 meter is a 4% grade.
So, I guess that we should talk about 60cm and 0.914 meter gauges. SG would be 1.435 meter gauge.
K36 drivers are 1.12 meters in diameter
Trivial trivia.
Doug vV
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